🪙 Criticism is growing again around Michael Saylor's Strategy — at Grayscale they believe that it's time for the company not to increase dividends on STRC, but to sell over $3 billion in BTC and close almost all cash obligations for 2 years in advance.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse also hit out at Saylor's strategy, stating that the long-term value of the crypto market should be built on the utility of assets, and not on endlessly mortgaging the future for the sake of accumulating BTC.

While Saylor says volatility will pass, critics see the STRC, trading below par, as an alarming signal for the entire Strategy model.

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🪙 Vitalik Buterin wrote an article about obfuscation — one of the most powerful and complex tools in cryptography, which allows a program to be run such that the result is visible, but its internal logic remains hidden (under the hood).

In theory, together with blockchain, this could provide almost a "trustless trusted third party" — private voting, complex protocols without committees, and new cryptosystems.

But for now, the main problem is very severe — secure obfuscation already appears mathematically possible, but it works so slowly, that Vitalik calls it almost a "galactic" level of cost.

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🤣 The Bank for International Settlements stated, that current stablecoins are crap USDT/USDC do not qualify as full-fledged money, because they DO NOT provide guaranteed exchange at par between different issuers and blockchains.

In essence, regulators see them not as "digital dollars", but rather as an ETF on the dollar, which, if the market grows, could strengthen dollarization and risks for weak currencies.

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☠️ Another Russian woman lost 7,000,000 rubles on "crypto investments" — she listened to a curator for a month, deposited 4.6 million via transfers and another 2.4 million through an exchanger, and when she tried to withdraw the profit, it turned out that only the team of fraudsters was making money there.

The harshest moment — more than 5,000,000 rubles of this money were borrowed.

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🪙 Strategy last week DID NOT buy Bitcoin and instead approved a stock buyback of $1 billion — it seems Saylor is temporarily shifting focus from aggressive BTC accumulation to supporting its own shares and liquidity management.

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🪙 Billionaire Jeremy Grantham, who predicted the dot-com bubble and the 2008 crisis, is burying Bitcoin — according to him, BTC will definitely go to zero, even if it takes a long time.

His main thesis is simple — Bitcoin has become neither convenient money nor stable digital gold, but is held mainly by speculation and the belief that someone will buy it for more later.

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